A waiting list may be established for any further vacancies that may arise in General Radiology across the Trust within the next six months

The trust has completed a major equipment replacement programme and operates a fully integrated province wide RIS/PACS with integrated Voice Recognition and Vitrea software. Home links for on call are available.

The Trust provides a full range of services on its acute sites including Anaesthetics, ENT with Head and Neck surgery, Oral Surgery with provision of sub regional services, Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Respiratory, General and specialist Surgery including Vascular, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, sub regional Orthopaedics, major Emergency units, Pathology, Haematology, Neurology, Urology, Palliative Care and is a Cancer Centre. A Radiotherapy Unit on the Altnagelvin site opened in November 2016.

Altnagelvin Area Hospital is located on the outskirts of Londonderry, which is N Ireland’s second largest city, which has excellent schools, very affordable housing and a wide range of arts and leisure facilities and is within a short drive of some of Ireland’s best beaches.

The department currently has one MRI scanner , Nuclear Medicine including SPECT CT, two CT scanners, Direct Digital Radiography, Ultrasound, interventional radiology, fluoroscopy and DEXA. A new Radiotherapy and Oncology Centre opened in November 2016. The Centre has Linear accelerators, a CT simulator and a dedicated diagnostic imaging department comprising a CT scanner, Digital Radiography and MRI scanner.

Altnagelvin is the site of the Western Breast Screening Unit which caters for the needs of 45,000 women, in a fully digital environment providing both screening and symptomatic services

An information pack giving details about the area, the Western HSC Trust and the radiology service is available by contacting the radiology department by emailing dan.mclaughlin@westerntrust.hscni.net

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